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Upon finding out about his parent’s mistakes, Chris had an undeniable resent toward his parents. His father had had an illegitimate child and refused to accept him, and his second family. Chris kept the concept of truth very close to his heart and when he discovered this deceit he was shocked. " ‘Their fraudulent marriage and our father's denial of his other son was, for Chris, a murder of every day's truth’ ” explained his sister (Krakauer 103).

Throughout the entire novel, Jack faces many complications during his childhood and struggles to find his self-identity. All of these stories and life lessons compiled into what became the memoir This Boy’s Life written by Tobias Wolff. The quote that I chose stood out to me because of the profound language that glorifies innocence. Through the use of symbolism, Wolff uses the color green, a fresh and pure color, to represent innocence and youth.

Do men and women think and react differently to certain situations? In the article “We’ve Got the Dirt on Guy Brains” by Dave Barry, he explains why and how both genders have different reactions. He says that woman can “detect a single dirt molecule twenty feet away”, whereas men have “Male Genetic Dirt Blindness”. If a man and a woman were looking at the same bathroom, the man would say it was clean, whereas the woman would say it was filthy. This could be just one man's opinion, but he goes on to explain how he has scientific proof of it being true.

How does one know if they can trust themself—that what they believe to be the truth is really true? Sometimes one can lie to themself without even knowing it, other times one worries that they are lying to themself, but they cannot tell if they are. In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve Harmon and James King are put on trial for the felony murder of a drug store owner, Mr. Nesbitt. During his jail time due to the trial, he writes a movie script and journal entries, which is how the information is presented to the reader. Kathy O’Brien, Harmon’s lawyer, helps him to be innocent in the eyes of the jury while the prosecutor, Sandra Petrocelli, and King’s lawyer, Asa Briggs attempt to link Harmon to King. Throughout Harmon’s writing, it is evident

World War II was a devastating war, whether you were directly in the war zone, or away from the battlefield, you were impacted greatly. Flyboys is a book written by James Bradley, in this book Bradley tells stories of World War II using first-hand accounts. In chapter five, Bradley discusses “The Rape of China” which was a battle that took place in 1937 during the beginning of World War II. In this battle, the Japanese fight the Chinese and destroy China. Both Japan and China had very different moral beliefs on fighting in the war. China believed that the soldiers needed to “be courteous,” and to also be “neither selfish nor unjust” to civilians (Bradley 54). Meanwhile, the Japanese had totally opposite policies known as the “Three Alls” meaning

Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers is about Coming of Age, Racism, and Value of Education. Coming of age is big part in Walter’s life and as Walter gets older, he faces more problems. Racism has affected Walter in many ways, and as he gets older, it gets worse. Value of Education is a important part of Walter’s life because he thinks his education is less important as he gets older.

Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers is based on him growing up and his family. In chapter 1, Roots, Walter talks about his rots. On page 1 he says, “I learned about most of the people who had some effect on my life through family, stories, census records, old photographs, and in case of Lucas D. Dennis……” Walter talked about his birth mother she had five children, Gertrude, Ethel, George, Walter, and Imogene. Walter`s birth mother, Mary, died shortly after the birth of Imogene, you can find this on page 3. The woman, that he thought of as his mother was Florence Dean, his father`s first wife. In this marriage Walter had two more sisters, Geralding and Viola. The marriage ended in divorce, and Florence moved back to Pennsylvania.

This book is about Kurt trying to find his sister and Stacey trying to cope with everyone talking behind her back and everyone talking about her pregnancy. Carol shows that anyone can handle getting bullied but there is a limit, people shouldn’t get bullied because a lot of kids are committing suicide because of it, and that when kids are getting bullied they can handle it but then when it comes to a point they can’t handle it they don’t think life is worth living for, Carols shows this in Stacey because She was getting bullied everyday by almost all the kids and she went through it all the time but then when it comes to a certain point she couldn’t bare the fact that she had to go through it every day. People who get bullied always wants revenge to the bully and in the book The Night My Sister Went Missing Mark Stern was trying to get revenge because Stacey cheated on Mark a lot because she was always out with people every night they were dating. I think that the author was trying to send a message because Carol Plum-Ucci has created this book for teens and wanted to send a message by showing that bullying can lead to very serious matters like suicide and she shows that by making Stacey the victim of bullying and showing that Stacey couldn’t live with her self any more so she decided to commit

Karen Zipor English 9H – Block 2 Rough Draft 10-2-14 People have hunted, fought, and gone into war since prehistoric times. Ever since then, people have questioned how could so many individuals have the moral to kill numerous innocent lives. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell uses character development, conflicts, and the climax to show the theme that each person has a different value of humanity. One way Connell presented the theme was through character development. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford did not care for the animals he hunted.

The memoir, This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff is about a boy fighting an internal battle between bad behavior and good morale; at the end of the book Toby becomes a good boy, but has many bumps in his journey. For example, when Toby and his mother move into Dwight’s house, he doesn’t tell his mother that Dwight is an abusive person. So when his mother was nearby Toby would lie and confirm “all his lying implications that we (Toby and Dwight) were pals and our life together was a good one” (99, Wolff). Toby kept quiet about the violence because he thinks that his mother is happy with Dwight and he doesn’t want to mess up their relationship. Secondly, when Toby is sent off to live at the farm, he siphones gas from the Welch’s car. Just afterwards,

In Rodman Philbrick's compelling story Freak the Mighty, Max was kidnapped by his own dad who now has begun his plan to brainwash his own child into believing that everything this whole time has been a lie and he's innocent. After taking a rest Kenny starts his plan by telling Max that he killed nobody and he was just assumed for that because, of his size. This displays that, Kenny is manipulating his own son into believing that he is innocent. He even uses the Bible card by swearing he isn't a serial killer. At first Max was more agitated and nervous, but, when Kenny got the bible out, Max started to feel numb and think. After a long talk and some more sleep Killer Kane goes to Max and continues his goal of brainwashing his own child by, coming

Horace states, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” He depicts that hardship plays in developing one’s character. In defense, people in daily life and works of fiction have overcome adversity and grew as a whole.

Freak the Mighty is a book about a boy named Maxwell Kane who has a friend named Kevin. These two kids have a really strong bond in the book and in the movie. The movie is not called Freak the Mighty it is called The Mighty. In the book, there are different things in the book than in the movie such as, when Kevin has a seizure, Tony D + the basket ball, and the ornithopter part.

In the book Omega City, Gillian Seagret, navigated through decomposing buildings, swam through shinny black waters and dogged from her dad’s sussipuish girlfriend Fiona . Gillian’s dad Dr. Sam is on the verge of finding something big, but instead was found by his daughter Gillian. Dinana Peterfreund used external conflict extremely well in her book Omega City.

From shooting squirrels to trying to run to Alaska, Tobias Wolff makes his memoir, This Boy’s Life, a truly captivating, and meaningful book. The book stars Toby Wolff a young boy, who struggles through his childhood and young adult years. Due to an unstable home life, and a variety of character flaws, Toby has a rough time doing what is ethically right, which often leads him meeting trouble later down the road, and throughout the book, he often makes seemingly erratic and irrational decisions that leave us all wandering. Even though Toby struggles and makes a plethora of mistakes throughout the memoir, his grit, persuasion, and unique perspective of the world, could work in his favor, if he chooses to clean up his act, illustrating that even the most unethical people have positive qualities.